Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-10-19
PUBLIC OPINION.
TEE ANARoH1srs AND THE LAW.

pIUuA Sisy 0OulAai NsOp.ls AHO
| flag of this country offers no protection
to anarchy. Law and order rule.
Louisville Courier Journal, Sept. IA,
Dem): The law must, be enforced.
The preservation of society and its in
situations is Of more Importance than
the lives of anarchists.
st. Louis Republican Oem-) j:
Doubtless the Anarchists are beginning
to reflect by this time that a government
of the people, by the people is a strong
er government than an autocracy or a
mobocracy. The use of dynamite in
this country must be depressed by the
hangman.
Chicago News Qnd): There was at
one time among this community an in
tensely bitter feeling against the seven
leaders charged with the responsibility
of the Haymarket massacre; it was a
natural desire for vengeance. To it
has succeeded calm but unfaltering
determination to punish with the ex-
tremest penalties the offenders against
those laws which have been instituted
for the protection of society.
Iowa State Register (Rep.):
This is good news to send over tt
land, and it will strengthen popular
confidence in the courts and estab-
lished means of justice. The anarch-
lists have had fair trial. The miser-
able wretches who unfurled the black
flag of anarchy are not to have any
chance of getting free and beginning
again their war upon society.
Minneapolis Tribune: (Rep.) The
public has no bloodthirsty desire for
vengeance against the misJudged
wretches of the Haymarket crime. But
the sentiment that justice and the safety
of the established social order requires
their death at the hand of the law, is
general. That sentiment Is quite as
strong to-day as it was year ago. The
people have not learned to look with
leniency upon the crime,
| Council Bluffs Globe Oem): The
fact is that disorder would de-
stroY nation, and the laws must be
enforced. Disorder will destroy a
family. or any of the institutions of
society, if is permitted to continue on
any one line. Sometimes it happens
that person must suffer little more
than he should, because of his being in
bad company. The law cannot in all
cases distinguish closely between the
leader and the passive follower, among
lawbreakers.
Des Moines Leader Oem.): Anarchy
is fungus growth to be exterminatedi in
this country. Johann Most the other
day applied in New York court for
his first ''papers," but his answers to
the clerks interrogatories were SO I'M
patriotic that the clerk refused to issue
the document. One day later the SUI
I preme court of Illinois in practically
unanimous decision affirmed the SEN
tence of the seven fiends convicted at
: Chicago for the murders of the night Of
May 4, 1886, and the date of their ex.
ecution Is fixed for November IL next.
The burial of their dead bodies will
probably mark the end of anarchy in
the United States.
/ st. Paul Pioneer Press (Rep.): The
announcement, bulletined all ever the
country yesterday morning, that the
supreme court of Illinois had affirmed
the sentence of death passed upon the
anarchists, was received by the people
everywhere like the news of great
victory in time OF war. And such, in
truth, it was. For the first time in Their
history, the American people have been
called on to do battle with an organi.
cation formed for the destruction of so.
cial order by crime. They have used
no weapons but the law. They have
come out triumphant, and that triumph
is not marred by the possible injustice
of passionate impulse,
Chicago Herald Oem.): With the
ballot box open to them as to all citi-
zens these men preached wholesale
murder as means of remedying what
they described as their ills. A single
bomb of the many they caused to be
manufactured was ignited with a result
as distressing as it was terrible
Though its explosion startled society,
whose agents lay dead and maimed and
bleeding, it did not paralyze the arm
of the law, which instantly was
stretched forth to seize them. They
now stand condemned to death. They
who sowed the wind are to reap the
whirlwind. They who took up the
sword are to perish by the sword.
Chicago Tribune: Every applicant
for citizenship should be refused it in
case of any reasonable suspicion that
he is tainted with socialistic or anar-
chistic views. The courts must stand
squarely on the law in Its protection
against dangerous citizenship. Fur
ther, those who have procured natural
ization by false pretenses and perjury
should be stripped out of ill-gotten
rights. 1t is a principle of law that
/ fraud vitiates contract. This sound
doctrine is as applicable to the acqui-
sition of a political right as to property
or any privilege or franchise that one
may acquire by contract, There Is a
large field here for reform.
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